Card holder



Get. 10, 1933. WEBER 1,929,908

CARD HOLDER Filed Dec. 1, 1932 5 j E 2; r f I O 76 G a r Z 'I /z /a a ,/ZZ T 1 [6 x Jb/m Doe, f

5057b 5 4 M gg flfassd 1 I l l JMWZZW ATTORNEY iaieniecl Got. 1! 1933 Uiil'iED STATES PATENT @Ffli'fih Application December 1,

6 Claims.

This invention relates to card holders adapted to be attached to boxes, packages, trunks or other shipping receptacles and which may be permanently secured to such shipping receptacles and which is adapted to carry an address card or the like.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide such a card holder with means for preventing accidental loss of such card.

Another object of the invention is to provide such card retaining means which may be readily operated for the instantaneous introduction or removal of the address card.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a card holder in which the card holder frame and card retaining means comprise a unitary structure so that the shipping receptacle to which it is attached need not in any way be out or mutilated.

Another object is to produce a device of the character described in which the maximum simplicity of construction and operation is secured.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the improvements is better understood, the invention consisting substantially in the novel arrangement and co-relation of parts herein fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein similar reference characters are used to describe corresponding parts throughout the several views, and then finally pointed out and specifically defined and indicated in the appended claims.

The disclosure made the basis of exemplifying the present inventive concept suggests a practical embodiment thereof, but the invention is not to be restricted to the exact details of this disclosure, and the latter, therefore, is to be understood frem an illustrative, rather than a restrictive standpoint.

The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expressions, one of which, for the purpose of illustration, is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a top plan view of my improved card holder shown SBGLll'Bd to a wall of the shipping receptacle.

Figure 2 is an end view thereof, looking from the left of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional View taken on line 3-3 Figure 1.

Figure e is a sectional view taken on line 4-4 Figure 1, and

Figure 5 is a fragmental sectional view showing the card retaining spring raised to permit the insertion or removal of the address card.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, 10 indicates a one piece substantially rectangular frame comprising side flanges 11 and 12, a fiat end flange 13 and raised end flange 14 which is provided with a pressed out housing 15. Each of the flanges is provided with a beaded or raised portion or strip 16 bounding or circumscribing a central opening 17, through which an address card 18 held beneath the raised strips 16 is visible.

Secured at 20 to the underside of the upper wall 15 is a resilient member or spring 19 provided at its free endwith a finger piece 21 which projects through an opening 22 in the top wall of the housing 15 and which normally rests upon a ledge or platform 23 pressed downwardly from the said top wall. The frame 10 is secured to a wall 25 of a suit case or other shipping receptacle by means of rivets 26.

To insert the card 18 into the holder, the finger piece 21 (see Fig. 5) is lifted up thus flexing the spring 19 and bringing the bottom there- I so of upwardly. With the in this position the forward edge of the address card 18 is inserted into the mouth 28 (see Figs. 2 and 4) and slid into position until the said forward edge abuts the forward vertical wall 29 of the holder. '85 The spring is then released and the bent down section 30 thereof forms a stop for the opposite end of the card and prevents same from accidental displacement. The card 18 may be removed by lifting the spring 19 and sliding the said card outwardly through the mouth 28.

. From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a unitary card holder structure which may be secured to a suitabl receptacle, the said card holder having a resilient card stop 'at one end thereof to prevent the accidental loss of the address card in the holder.

It will further be seen that the said stop holder is simple in construction, easily operated and efficient in its operation.

It is to be understood that instead of rectangular the frame 10 may be of any suitable geometric shape and I do not limit myself to a frame of such rectangular shape.

Having described my invention what I claim-- as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A card holder comprising an apertured frame having a mouth opening for the insertion of a card, a resilient card stop within the frameat the said mouth opening, and an extension on the said card stop extending through the said aperture.

2. A card holder comprising an apertured frame having a mouth opening for the insertion of a card, a card stop made of resilient material carried by the said frame at the mouth opening, and an extension on the said stop extending outwardly of the frame, through the said aperture.

3. A card holder comprising a substantially rectangular frame having a top opening, side and end flanges thereon, one of the said flanges eing raised to provide a mouth opening for the admission of a card, an aperture in the said raised flange, a raised card retairnng section circumscribing the said top opening, a resilient card stop secured to the frame at the mouth opening, and an extension on the said stop extending outwardly of the frame, through the said aperture.

4:. A card holder comprising a substantially rectangular frame having a top opening, side and end flanges thereon, one of the said flanges being raised to provide a mouth opening for the admission, of a card, a raised card retaining section circumscribing the said top opening, a raised housing on the raised flange, a perforation in the said housing, a spring card stop secured to the said housing, and a finger piece on the said stop extending through the said perforation.

5. A card holder comprising a substantially rectangular frame having a top opening, side and end flanges thereon, one of the said flanges being raised to provide a mouth opening for the admission of a card, a raised card retaining section circumscribing the said top opening, raised housing on the raised flange, a perforation in the said housing, a depressed ledge in the housing perforation, a spring card stop secured to the said housing, and a finger piece on the said stop extending through the said perforation and normally resting on the said ledge.

6. A card holder comprising a frame having a top opening, side and end flanges thereon, one of the said flanges being raised to provide a mouth opening for the admission of a card, a raised card retaining section ciroums-eribing the top opening, a raised housing on the raised flange, a perforation in the said housing, a spring card stop secured to the said housing, and card stop raising means extending through the perforation.

DAVID A. WEBER. 

